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Revision: 1.500
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1 root 1.462 rxvt-unicode changelog <= google-friendly title
2    
3 root 1.435 TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options.
4 root 1.428 TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent.
5 root 1.365 TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts
6 root 1.287 TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
7 root 1.443 TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look.
8 root 1.363 WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif
9 root 1.346 WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
10 root 1.492 WISH: support tex fonts
11 root 1.346
12 root 1.500 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
13     SETUID/SETGID operation tot he FAQ.
14 root 1.499 - selection, selection-popup and option-popup extensions
15     enabled by default.
16     - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
17     and much much more.
18 root 1.493 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
19 root 1.495 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
20 root 1.496 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
21 root 1.499 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
22     - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
23 root 1.498 setuid/setgid.
24 root 1.499 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
25 root 1.497 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
26 root 1.499 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
27 root 1.493
28 root 1.491 6.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
29 root 1.484 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
30     not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
31     world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
32 root 1.489 too), and were not restored properly. Affected are only
33     systems where non-unix ptys were used (such as most BSDs, not
34     GNU/Linux). (found, patched and debugged by Ryan Beasley).
35 root 1.481 - meta8 support was forcefully enabled in most configurations.
36     restored configurability of this (useless) feature (reported
37 root 1.488 by Mikachu).
38 root 1.477 - optionally embed a perl interpreter, which can be used for more
39     intelligent/customized selection support, visual feedback,
40 root 1.478 menus, tabs etc. See the the urxvtperl manpage, the -pe option,
41 root 1.481 perl*-resources and keysym resources. Not everything is there yet.
42 root 1.486 - try to be more clever about differing font sizes and their ascent.
43 root 1.488 Not guarenteed to work, but works better in most cases now.
44 root 1.475 - fix directory permissions on install.
45 root 1.490 - implemented option to disable built-in line drawing characters
46 root 1.488 and fall back to the font ones (patch by Martin Pohlack).
47 root 1.487 - disabled sched_yield support: the linux version is just too useless
48     (it schedules nice'd processes before the own one for extended
49     periods). Too bad, it could reduce system time by a factor of 5 here.
50 root 1.474
51 root 1.473 6.2 Mon Jan 2 16:03:01 CET 2006
52 root 1.465 - implemented intensityStyles option which enables/disables bold/blink
53     selecting high intensity foreground/background colours, suggested by
54     Chuck Blake.
55 root 1.466 - move iso14755 character feedback box out of the way if it would
56     obscure the mouse cursor position.
57 root 1.463 - replaced callback.h by a fixed version from gvpe that correctly
58 root 1.464 returns the callback result (affects new -pty-fd semantics in urxvtc
59     on a few architectures). Reported by darix.
60 root 1.469 - include one trailing space in rectangular selections to indicate
61     the inserted newline (yeah, weird, but visually more pleasing).
62 root 1.472 - try to use sched_yield to (drastically) improve terminal data
63     transfer efficiency.
64 root 1.467 - further minor cleanups.
65 root 1.463
66 root 1.461 6.1 Tue Dec 27 13:23:40 CET 2005
67 root 1.454 - update iso8859-7 table (euro and drachma round-trip et al.).
68 root 1.452 - fix a crash when the selection scrolls out of the scrollback
69     while the user still drags.
70 root 1.453 - selections that were partially scrolled out of the window were
71     not drawn correctly.
72 root 1.455 - lines newly scrolled in were not initialized properly, leading
73     to extremely long lines and (hopefully) some segfaults.
74 root 1.457 - iso14755 overlay position was wrong.
75     - iso14755 overlay now displays rendition info, too.
76 root 1.459 - use unicode white space class instead of hardcoded values for
77     stripping whitespace.
78 root 1.458 - do whitespace stripping on rectangular selections.
79 root 1.460 - slight cleanups in src/features.h.
80 root 1.452
81 root 1.449 6.0 Sat Dec 24 13:58:56 CET 2005
82 root 1.437 - make it compile without SMART_RESIZE again.
83 root 1.439 - enable slow link support by default.
84 root 1.441 - fix relative cursor-positioning not respecting scrolling regions
85     (also a bug in original rxvt).
86 root 1.442 - initialize termios structure to zero when fetching it fails
87     (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84647 for a
88     partial patch).
89     - bump max columns/rows to 10000 each.
90     - bump max savelines to 10000000.
91 root 1.447 - -pty-fd now passes the urxvtc fd to the urxvtd process.
92 root 1.448 - avoid linking against -lnsl/-lsocket/-lxpg4 unless neccessary.
93 root 1.441 - major code cleanup (still not complete, though).
94 root 1.445 - implement -hold option.
95 root 1.441 - _major_ rewrite of internal buffer handling:
96 root 1.443 - re-flow on resize, lines get wrapped instead of winged.
97 root 1.440 - circular line buffer (substantially speeds up scrolling).
98     - slightly less code + data memory usage per terminal.
99     - slight overall speed improvements.
100     - considerably improved code clarity.
101 root 1.439 - partial-screen scrolls no longer end up in the scrollback
102     buffer.
103 root 1.437
104 root 1.436 5.9 Sat Dec 17 21:53:17 CET 2005
105 root 1.432 - fix a bug in the menu code of unknown impact, found by darix.
106     - clean up signal handling to be global, not per terminal
107     (matters only for rxvtd).
108 root 1.434 - fix small typoe in rxvt.1 (found by Mike Fabian).
109 root 1.433 - don't crash when broken xft/fontconfig/freetype versions return
110 root 1.434 bogus data, ignore the xft font instead (experienced on suse).
111 root 1.431
112 root 1.429 5.8 Tue Oct 25 22:21:45 CEST 2005
113 root 1.428 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: many configure options are now on by default.
114 root 1.430 If you want the old behaviour, try:
115     configure --disable-everything <your enable options>
116     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: -fade changed it's meaning to comply with
117     the documentation and common sense: when upgrading, replace your
118     percentage by 100-percentage.
119     - integrated "fade to specific colour" patch by Martin Parm.
120     - slow down the internal visual bell (delay by 20ms) and update
121     the terminfo flash code to use the same delay. This is
122     synchronous, so many bells might inhibit screen updates in other
123     windows.
124     - text with background==foreground colour gets displayed with default
125     bg/fg now when in reverse video, so it can be seen when selecting.
126     - allow koi8r* as x11 encoding name for koi8r (Nikita Danilov).
127     - removed undocumented inheritPixmapforce option.
128     - replaced INSTALL file.
129    
130 root 1.415 5.7 Wed Jul 13 04:46:33 CEST 2005
131 root 1.411 - implement some useful (hopefully) options for rxvtd.
132 root 1.430 - separate and improved rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1) manpages.
133     - fix a bug that caused segfaults on startup on systems that do
134     not support local unix connections, e.g cygwin. (btw, I didn't
135     even know about the -rootless and -multiwindow Cygwin/X modes).
136     - large amounts of text without control sequences or newlines
137     could almost freeze output. This has been fixed by adding extra
138 root 1.441 refreshes in these cases (also a problem in original rxvt).
139 root 1.411
140 root 1.410 5.6 Sun Jun 26 22:11:13 CEST 2005
141 root 1.430 - R_SB_RXVT bitset value was 0, so rxvt scrollbar was initialised
142     every time resulting in display errors (original rxvt also affected).
143     Reported by Jasmin Buchert.
144     - font names are now considered to be utf-8 encoded (xft apperently
145     uses this convention. X Core fonts might not, but it should be rare).
146     Affects display in iso14755 box.
147     - rewrote the low-level xft drawing function ("xft backend" for the
148     hipper parts of the world) to hopefully cope better with proportional
149     chars mixed with fixed-width ones.
150     - rxvt is now much more careful (read: slower) with potentially
151     overlapping xft characters. It usually overshoots and redraws
152     more than required, but that's better than undershooting and
153     cutting pieces off of characters.
154     - rxvt is now more restrictive in what font heights it accepts for
155     fonts that will likely overshoot or undershoot lines.
156     - fix a cosmetic problem with the unfocused cursor on a wide character
157     at the end of the line (reported by Mikachu).
158     - wide characters not fitting into the end of the line will be
159     output in the next line (reported by Mikachu).
160     - added doc/solaris9.patch by Ewgenij Starostin.
161 root 1.399
162 root 1.396 5.5 Sat Apr 23 22:31:36 CEST 2005
163 root 1.394 - re-enabled modifer state matching as in 5.3, but implement
164 root 1.430 a new builtin: keysym style that simply reverts to the built-in
165     meaning of the given key.
166     - use scrollcolor for next scrollbar instead of hardcoded antiquewhite
167     (patch by Martin Edlman).
168 root 1.394
169 root 1.393 5.4 Mon Apr 18 00:33:31 CEST 2005
170     - match modifier state exactly in custom keyboard code.
171 root 1.430 this is necessary because it has no knowledge about
172     built-in mappings and so will overwrite them. the priority-code
173     will be re-enabled when this has changed, so watch out.
174 root 1.393 - cursor blinking now depends on frills.
175 root 1.430 - underline cursor mode (frills, -uc).
176 root 1.393 - implement special value (*g*) for pointerBlankDelay
177 root 1.433 to disable it.
178 root 1.393
179 root 1.392 5.3 Sun Mar 13 00:20:44 CET 2005
180     - fix a bug that allowed to overflow a buffer via a long
181 root 1.430 escape sequence, which is probably exploitable (fix by
182     Rob Holland / Yoann Vandoorselaere / Gentoo Audit Team).
183     - Custom key mappings no longer confuse mouse buttons
184     with modifiers.
185 root 1.389 - use XmbSetWMProperties instead of XSetWMProperties.
186     - properly update WM_LOCALE.
187 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_PING protocol.
188     - implemented escape sequences to move the scrollback buffer view
189     and clear the scrollback buffer.
190 root 1.389
191 root 1.388 5.2 Sun Feb 20 01:48:59 CET 2005
192 root 1.381 - new option -pty-fd that makes the terminal a slave
193 root 1.430 that uses an existing pty for I/O instead of starting
194     a command.
195     - implement enough of XEMBED to allow for correct focus.
196     - added doc/embed-tk, an embedding example in Perl/Tk,
197     and doc/rxvt-tabbed, a primitive tabbed shell implemented
198     in Perl/Gtk2.
199     - fix assertion failure ("crash") on mousewheel-scrolling
200     when the terminal height is small, by removing the assert.
201     (reported by Mikael Magnusson).
202     - SYNCCVS. backported bugfixes done to rxvt
203     (sourceforge bugs #1028739, #1028732), except for
204     pts/%s fix as it seems to collide with freebsd,
205     and sourceforge bug #954654, which is not neccessary.
206     - change terminfo file to not clobber G1 when using
207     line-drawing characters, as this seems to mess
208     with EUC-JP (it will clobber G0, but G0 practically
209     needs to be US-ASCII all the time).
210     - toggle default application keypad/cursor mode to help
211     some apps who fail to set the correct mode.
212     - check for WM_PROTOCOLS type in ClientMessage as to
213     not destroy the window for other types of messages.
214 root 1.379 - remove shared library (or any library) support - it is
215 root 1.430 of no use currently (and -embed is a better way to embed
216     rxvt-unicode).
217     - get rid of the intpro files.
218 root 1.373
219 root 1.372 5.1 Tue Feb 15 17:13:27 CET 2005
220 root 1.361 - fix a bug when parsing fontnames and another one
221 root 1.430 for empty keymaps which could result in crashes
222     (Kuang-che Wu).
223     - new option: -embed (frills). somebody could write a simple
224     tk script to make a tab'able terminal now...
225     - only warn on X errors and _try_ to continue (frills).
226     - add COPYING back, which got lost somehow.
227     - after deciding that LSM is dead, remove all traces of it,
228     along with other, similar, cleanups.
229     - _try_ to react sensibly to some non-monotonic time changes.
230     - don't crash in urxvtc when getcwd fails (reported by Paco-Paco).
231     - tweak font searching algorithm a bit to be faster and more
232     compatible with older rxvt-unicode versions when multiple fonts
233     match (reported by Paco-Paco).
234     - urxvtd tries to stay in "/" whenever possible.
235 root 1.361
236 root 1.360 5.0 Fri Feb 11 18:31:48 CET 2005
237     - document a race-free hack to start urxvtd.
238 root 1.430 - document all(?) environment variables used and set by rxvt.
239     - bring xgetdefault-style resource file ordering more in line with
240     Xt, and document it in rxvt(1).
241     - correctly use screen-dependent resources when --enable-xgetdefault,
242     and also fix some memory bugs (thanks to Thierry Reding for
243     his patience and time in tracking this down).
244     - bring own resource parsing more in line with X resource parsing,
245     most notably, don't remove double quotes.
246 root 1.360 - compile fix for freebsd (no ut_id) (Thierry Thomas).
247 root 1.430 - clean up utmp and pty on X I/O errors and signals (idea
248     by Joël Riou).
249     - "un"document -xrm, it never really worked, was only
250     available with --enable-xgetdefault, is not necessary
251     and is surprisingly hard to implement.
252     - shaved off some code segment size.
253     - various code cleanups.
254     - more keysym-mapping fixes.
255 root 1.360
256 root 1.346 4.9 Thu Feb 3 09:52:03 CET 2005
257 root 1.430 - nuke out utmp entries completely. Should be fixed in
258     original rxvt, too. (reported by James Michael Fultz).
259     - resizes wil now correctly refresh the displayed text when
260     -pixmap is active.
261     - new option/resource imFont.
262     - document --tripleclickwords/-tcw.
263     - select logical instead of physical lines when doing a triple-click.
264     - reordered help listing to group similar options together.
265     - handle SIGINT the same way as SIGTERM (reported by Joël Riou).
266     - fix a bug introduced while applying the keyboard patch
267     (WU Fengguang).
268     - document all window-op sequences (rxvt.7.) and more keysym
269     examples (rxvt.1).
270     - removed src/test completely.
271     - renamed keysym 'proto:'-prefix to 'command:'.
272 root 1.287
273 root 1.331 4.8 Tue Jan 18 02:23:57 CET 2005
274 root 1.430 - added a patch by WU Fengguang that makes the keyboard
275     highly configurable (e.g. locale changes, custom escape
276     sequences, and more). See keysym resource in rxvt(1).
277     - remove default key sequence for unknown keys again, as this
278     can be achieved by customizing the keyboard now.
279     - fix some freeing problems when destroying the rxvt_display,
280     resulting in segfaults.
281     - don't crash when the saved cursor position doesn't fit on the
282     screen (wrong assert in original rxvt, reported by ikaro).
283     - fix signed/unsigned bugs on wc<->mb conversions.
284     - reset slipwheel scrolling speed when reaching the top or bottom
285     (Mikael Magnusson).
286     - for core fonts, use ascent + descent when a font is loaded,
287     and PIXEL_SIZE when not. when loading a font, iterate until a
288     font has been found that _really_ fits the height (reported and
289     tested by Olivier Wittenberg).
290     - set IUTF8 input flag, when defined (linux-2.6.5+).
291     - only define _XOPEN_SOURCE on solaris.
292     - autogenerate src/* dependency list.
293     - fixed linespace option, which ought to work now (and is dependent
294     on frills, not on it's own configure option).
295     - include pty.h, if available (cygwin).
296     - removed W11 directory from dist, it wasn't used anyway.
297     - initialize the locale much earlier.
298     - fixed two tiny per-instance memory leaks.
299 root 1.331
300 root 1.312 4.7 Wed Dec 29 20:54:24 CET 2004
301 root 1.430 - fix a bug in the event logic that could cause the temrinal to be
302     black on initial startup.
303     - do NOT call XCloseIM, ever. This causes way to many crashes due to
304     races in the protocol and within Xlib.
305 root 1.312 - map iso-left-tab to the same sequence as shift-tab.
306 root 1.430 - generate a unique escape sequence for many unknown keys, such as
307     additional multimedia keys.
308     - mask out high (non-unicode) bits on wide characters, to cope with
309     implementations that store tag info in the high bits.
310 root 1.312
311 root 1.305 4.6 Thu Dec 16 07:54:23 CET 2004
312 root 1.292 - try very hard not to exhaust the kernel tty buffers, even
313 root 1.430 if it slows down large pastes and is only cosmetic.
314     - streamline atom and xft color allocation to reduce startup
315     time (12.8s -> 7.8s on my dsl). Still, doing it with only 2-3
316     turnarounds would be much faster, but impossible to implement(?).
317     - implement underlineColor resource when ENABLE_FRILLS.
318     - iom left it's signal pipe handle open in the child
319     process. Fortunately not security-relevant as the pipe data gets
320     ignored.
321     - do not use XSETROOTPMAP_ID anymore, support ESETROOT_PMAP_ID
322     instead.
323     - fix a crash in rxvtd when the last window was being closed
324     (reported by hednod).
325     - fix an unlikely memory leak.
326     - fix atom name enumeration.
327 root 1.291
328 root 1.290 4.5 Mon Dec 13 07:47:16 CET 2004
329     - fix an extremely nasty bug in utf8-conversion. upgrade is advised.
330 root 1.430 - completely re-wrote selection pasting. This should fix garbled
331     incomplete characters at 32k boundaries and too-short INCR
332     selections, and more. Increases memory requirements considerably
333     for large selections, but that seems unavoidable.
334 root 1.288
335     4.4 Sun Dec 12 22:10:06 CET 2004
336 root 1.287 - rewrote handling of default-char width.
337 root 1.430 - implement _NET_WM_NAME et al., and also use UTF8_STRING
338     for the xterm property esc. sequence. Allows i18n window
339     titles etc.
340     - SMART_WINDOW_TITLE removed, pls. complain if you need this.
341     - added GBK encoding (formidable patch by WU Fengguang).
342     - fixed a bug in the transparency code.
343     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
344     - force slower (but more responsive) transparency update.
345     - fix off-by-one bug with wide characters at the end of a line,
346     which got partially overwritten by spaces.
347     - as xlib is completely broken with respect to utf-8 handling
348     and nobody is going to fix it, that part has been re-implemented.
349     should fix most paste problems between apps that use UTF8 encoding
350     and rxvt running in a lesser-supported locale (thanks to Robin Redeker
351     for writing utf8towcs). Only enabled with ENABLE_FRILLS.
352     - darwin compile fix by Ethan Blanton.
353     - fix the colour of the underline, which was rather random before.
354 root 1.272
355 root 1.274 4.3 Sat Dec 4 04:58:37 CET 2004
356 root 1.430 - unapply the "emulated graphical chars. respect wcwidth" patch.
357     obviously in locales not having these characters they should
358     still have a width. Solve it correctly by not relying on wcwidth.
359     Note to self: do not ever apply patches without checking them
360     thoroughly.
361     - updated .spec file, it's included in the release tarball
362     now, too.
363 root 1.274
364 root 1.272 4.2 Wed Dec 1 03:30:22 CET 2004
365 root 1.287 - make emulated graphical characters respect wcwidth (Kuang-che Wu).
366 root 1.430 - remove debugging code that caused major slowdowns
367     on high-latency networks.
368     - wide characters shift the correct number of characters
369     in insert mode now. Reported by Gunnar Ritter.
370     - doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file contributed by Ville Herva.
371     - make storage of tab movements as characters optional
372     on the -ptab option and pastableTabs: resource. On request
373     by Gunnar Ritter.
374     - fix a bug where :size= argument for xft fonts was ignored
375     or used incorrectly. Reported by Ville Herva.
376 root 1.252
377 root 1.263 4.1 Sun Nov 21 21:10:19 CET 2004
378     - save and restore cursor position in secondary screen regardless of
379 root 1.430 -ssc/-ssr settings.
380 root 1.263 - fix some 64-bit bugs that lead to crashes with certain other
381 root 1.430 programs like vncviewer (original rxvt also affected).
382 root 1.263 - added doc/podtbl to the dist tarball.
383 root 1.430 - add compile fix for darwin.
384     - configure fix for transparency without tinting.
385     - changed CN to ZH _really_ everywhere.
386     - upgraded iom.[Ch].
387 root 1.263
388 root 1.252 4.0 Mon Sep 13 01:10:26 CEST 2004
389     - turn off autohinting for some badly-hinted fallback fonts.
390 root 1.430 - mnaapge tpyo crorcetoins by Bastian Kleineidam.
391     - implemented rectangular selections (button+meta), experimental.
392     - implement race-free signal handling in iom.C.
393     - use iom.C signal handling to avoid races in signal handling.
394     - use default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT, instead of terminating.
395     - "the return of the 100 times per second refresh bug".
396     ... terminated by a fix.
397     - new supported preeeditType "None".
398     - added FAQ about possible compose key problems.
399     - changed CN to ZH everywhere (sorry for the confusion).
400     - move XFilterEvent up, as some input method seem to want events
401     for windows not requesting XIM. Please report if this change
402     causes any harm (specially with pointerblanking)
403     (patch by Kuang-che Wu).
404     - send the input method spot position on every refresh, not just
405     when rxvt thinks it should (which was not often enough...).
406     - fix double-wide combining characters (it might look a bit ugly,
407     though, but common cases are handled by normalization anyways).
408     - moved FAQ to rxvt(7), also made a copy into README.FAQ.
409     - fix a bug(?) in the XIM destroy callback.
410     - be more conservative when trying to register new input methods,
411     as Xlib races might make rxvt crash. When two or more
412     input methods are active, killing one probably still crashes rxvt
413     due to that bug :( Thanks a lot to Kuang-che Wu for immense help
414     in tracking this down.
415     - manpages (but not .txt and .html versions) will be patched (during
416     make install) with the correct program name and other info.
417 root 1.252
418     3.9 Wed Aug 25 19:24:04 CEST 2004
419     - the change to unsigned int from unsigned short broke
420 root 1.430 many signed comparisons, resulting in failed assertions.
421 root 1.236
422     3.8 Wed Aug 25 05:46:56 CEST 2004
423 root 1.430 - WARNING: TERM=rxvt-unicode is now *default* unless compiled
424     differently. A terminfo entry will automatically be compiled and
425     installed if tic is available.
426     - fixed some --disable switches that didn't work.
427     - tweaked src/features.h a bit.
428     - removed README.unicode.
429     - support select&paste of tab characters.
430     - fixed a segfault when trying to load nonexistant fonts (reported
431     by Eduard Bloch and Mikael Magnusson).
432     - fixed a long-standing rxvt bug in which rxvt failed to save
433     and restore the correct cursor position on the secondary screen.
434     - reworked rxvt-unicode terminfo to allow more efficient and less flickering
435     screen updates with curses.
436     - wide characters that are being halfway overwritten are now replaced
437     by spaces.
438     - urxvtc now transmits urxvt as default name, not urxvtc anymore
439     (likewise for other names chosen at configure time).
440     - disabled the automatic font lookup for unknown characters. xft
441     is just too slow for this to work.
442     - changed realbold code, implemented _real_ bold and italic support,
443     where _real_ means the symbiosis of what I want with what I can
444     implement. use --enable-styles.
445     - removed 256 color mode, but enable 88 colours in all modes
446     (88 to be compatible with 88 colour xterm which is widely
447     supported, and most programs assume a non-iso colourtable
448     for terminals with "odd" number of colours).
449     - added doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo which is a big overhaul
450     compared to the old rxvt terminfo.
451 root 1.236 - sped up xft rendering by 30% *iff* the font allows it (i.e. is
452 root 1.430 monospaced "enough") *and* matches the base font in width.
453     - implement positive and negative character-font caching, which
454     speeds up output immensely in case a character cannot be found
455     (only for non-bold right now).
456     - fix segfault in fading code on certain escape sequences.
457     - better default font size and style.
458     - rxvt-unicode is now much more picky about fonts not fitting
459     into the base font, but to offset this it will check each
460     single character against the base font extents and will only
461     use the characters fitting into the bounding box (+ some fudge).
462     - characters not fitting into the base boundary box will now often
463     be used anyways, but the following characters will be redrawn
464     more often to avoid pixel-droppings. This is like the original
465     rxvt pixel-dropping pass but it's much faster.
466     - scrollColor now affects plain scrollbar (Mikael Magnusson).
467     - fixed segfault in overlay code when height was larger than the
468     screen height.
469     - cursor no longer shines "through" the overlay.
470     - 7-bit ST marker detection was broken.
471     - scrollbar didn't come back sometimes when switching it
472     off/on using escape sequences (Mikael Magnusson).
473     - fix lots of colour problems with focus fading.
474     - $COLORFGBG was not set as documented.
475     - fix iso 14755 5.1 support when --enable-frills but --disable-iso14755.
476     - removed OSC 702.
477     - disabled MOUSE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK by default, as programs seem to be
478     confused by it rather than using it.
479 root 1.168
480 root 1.194 3.7 Tue Aug 17 04:22:25 CEST 2004
481     - new configure option --enable-iso14755.
482 root 1.430 - full iso 14755 conformance (at least I claim so :).
483     - extended the FAQ section in the manpage.
484 root 1.194 - fix OverTheSpot and OffTheSpot editing, which was broken since ages,
485 root 1.430 due to no fontset being available. The fontset used is a very rough
486     approximation to the rxvt font, though. This fixes the
487     "cannot create input context" in most cases.
488     - fix coordinates used for Over && OffTheSpot editing to fit directly
489     at the cursor (Over) or into the top line (Off).
490     - reset SIGHUP and SIGPIPE handlers to default values (they were
491     previously being ignored, causing programs not to exit on windoe
492     close).
493     - implemented simple overlays for feedback messages. believe it or
494     not, this was a major blocker in implementing tabbed terminals.
495     - fix compiling with --disable-frills (Adam Sampson).
496     - clarify bold docs in README.unicode (Adam Sampson).
497 root 1.194 - fix crash on window close when the input method or context
498 root 1.430 could not be created.
499     - add work around for badly written programs (see debian bug
500     #202497). This is _not_ a bug in rxvt but rather a race
501     condition in other programs (e.g. jed). It works by forcefully
502     sending SIGWINCH when rxvt sees the first output from the
503     command. This workaround isn't perfect (a slight cost to
504     wellbehaving programs who need to resize twice), but it usually
505     works.
506 root 1.194 - set correct pixel size in struct winsize.
507 root 1.430 - document more escape sequences.
508     - fix leftover macros and a few minor doc glitches in rxvt(1).
509     - work around bash's assumption that stepping into the middle of a
510     character is a sensible operation.
511     - fix some corner cases in autowrap handling.
512     - remove various useless make cruft, renamed files to better
513     reflect on their function, renamed many variables.
514     - fixed printscreen functionality, as noted by Jinesh Choksi.
515     - fix a problem where redraws of double-width characters sometimes
516     made the last character draw with normal width (especially visible
517     with selections).
518 root 1.194
519 root 1.168 3.6 Sat Aug 14 04:55:26 CEST 2004
520 root 1.430 - SECURITY FIX: rxvtd kept open filehandles to other terminal
521     windows when spawning children. Actual risk is low (attacker
522     needs access to a local shell window).
523     - implemented parts 5.1 and 5.2 of ISO 14755 (i.e. hold down
524     Ctrl+Shift and enter hex numbers. space commits it as a unicode
525     character, or press and release Crl+Shift and then enter a
526     function key to get it's picture). patches for 5.3 (or 5.4 with
527     a little window or so) would be welcome.
528     - fixed large pastes (INCR selections, debian bug #191456).
529     - fixed longstanding bug in which rxvtd crashed when
530     a message was logged after startup (a rare case).
531     - got rid of yodl completely by converting to pod.
532     - integrated the FAQ into the manpage. In the future, more will be
533     added there.
534     - reference documentation is now installed as rxvt(7).
535     - rxvt(7) now contains README.configure, which is autogenerated.
536 root 1.168 - fix memory leak in insecure mode on certain display echos.
537 root 1.430 - report sequences now report empty strings in secure mode
538     instead of being ignored.
539     - enable some report sequences even in secure mode, such as colour
540     queries, as they are harmless(tm).
541     - rxvt-unicode will now try to find a matching xft font if it can't
542     find a matching font from the fallback list. It might look ugly,
543     but if a xft font with our character exists, rxvt will find it.
544     - moved FreeMono to the very back of the fallback list, as some
545     people complain it looks ugly. This is a no-win situation, though.
546     - fixed sourceforge bug 998970, reported against aterm:
547     "crash on -sl 0 on super small windows".
548     - decreased memory and code size when !--enable-transparency.
549     - SYNCCVS. backported changes done to rxvt, except for Color_ufbg,
550     which I think is better done through fading, and libW11, which
551     needs testing anyways.
552     - more complete compile options help output.
553     - Provide linear scaled colour cubes for 256 colour mode.
554     Pass them through as rgbi rather than rgb so that Xlib can
555     provide gamma (from per visual intensity lists) rather than
556     providing constant gamma ourselves. Noticed by and ideas from
557     Christopher Casey <realchriscasey@hotmail.com>
558     - minor doc fix.
559 root 1.137
560 root 1.147 3.5 Wed Aug 11 00:31:34 CEST 2004
561 root 1.430 - UPGRADE ADVISED: rxvt did wake up 100 times per second. did not
562     show in my top (linux...), but it's extremely annoying that I
563     released it with that bug. :( Fixed.
564 root 1.147 - use memove instead of for-loop for large scrollback buffer copies.
565 root 1.430 speeds up large scrollback buffers (on systems with reasonable
566     memmove :)
567 root 1.147 - minor cleanups.
568 root 1.430 - removed ~ from default cutchars, in accordance with the manpage
569     (debian bug #169415).
570     - fix a race condition on exit (debian bug #197265).
571     - change prio/next scrolling modifier handling (debian bug #226386).
572     - updated configure script to current autoconf standards.
573     - updated config.guess.
574 root 1.147
575     3.4 Fri Aug 6 19:34:29 CEST 2004
576 root 1.145 - fix inheritpixmap transparency border code.
577 root 1.430 - fix tinting transparency border code, also experimentally
578     make some scrollbars transparent (e.g. plain, my favourite style :).
579     - imported aterm shading code (faster and still portable).
580     - changed interpretation and usage of shading (-sh).
581     - fixed blinking underlined and negative text.
582     - disable slow link support on connections using unix domain sockets,
583     speeding up scrolling immensely.
584     - various other optimizations.
585     - new borderLess switch (ewmh-compliant), by Mikael Magnusson.
586 root 1.145
587     3.3 Sat Jul 31 15:15:59 CEST 2004
588 root 1.137 - some doc updates (Eduard Bloch).
589     - use faster inheritpixmap method when tinting color not set.
590     - fix pixmap offset when tinting (reported by Eduard Bloch).
591 root 1.430 - new -sh option by Mikael Magnusson.
592 root 1.137 - off-focus-fading (--enable-fading) support (patch by
593 root 1.430 Mikael Magnusson).
594     - cursor now set correctly on --disable-blank (reported by
595     Mikael Magnusson).
596     - better (and non-crashing) slipwheeling (Mikael Magnusson).
597 root 1.137 - solaris 2.8 portability changes (reported by Colin Marquardt).
598 root 1.430 - disable-xim now really disables xim code.
599 root 1.124
600     3.2 Mon Jul 26 19:57:32 CEST 2004
601 root 1.430 - support real bold fonts (patch by Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>),
602     if specified in the font list (and enabled by -rb).
603     - fixed --enable-keepscrolling and --enable-selectionscrolling, which
604     was broken since 1.8. Patch by Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>.
605     - fixed --enable-slipwheeling, see above.
606 root 1.124 - sequences ended by ST can now contain any octet by quoting it
607 root 1.430 with ^V (SYN).
608     - 8-bit-controls disabled by default (compiletime option).
609 root 1.124
610     3.1 Sat Jun 26 23:38:07 CEST 2004
611     - set default backspace sequence to "DEC" (which defaults to \177)
612 root 1.430 as opposed to \010 as before, which was incorrect (ahem :).
613     - updated doc/etc/rxvt.* to reflect the change. This brings rxvt
614     in line with many existing rxvt terminfo and termcap entries as
615     well as with other terminal emulators.
616 root 1.124 - fix a segfault when trying to set a nonexistant locale
617 root 1.430 (reported by elmex).
618     - find more fonts by default for japanese.
619     - the internal border wasn't always cleared. This is fixed by moving
620     the window relative to it's frame and simplifies a lot of code, too.
621     - fixed quite hard to find scrollbar colour bug, reported by Eduard
622     Bloch.
623 root 1.124
624     3.0 Mon May 10 20:47:23 CEST 2004
625     - experimental flickerfree resize mode (I tried to get even
626     less flickering with SouthWestGravity but couldn't get it to work,
627     sorry).
628     - c++-ify (or at least make it compile with g++-3.4, which should
629     make it a little bit more correct c++).
630    
631 pcg 1.114 2.9 Sat May 8 19:13:41 CEST 2004
632 root 1.430 - fix some minor doc issues + some generated doc files are now
633     getting distributed (closes debian bug #246035).
634     - minor i18n issue fixes.
635 pcg 1.114
636 pcg 1.110 2.8 Thu Apr 8 22:44:36 CEST 2004
637     - replace PF_LOCAL by PF_UNIX (portability).
638 root 1.430 - try to detect -lnsl and -lsocket (portability).
639     - fix some minor bugs.
640 pcg 1.110
641 pcg 1.108 2.7 Mon Apr 5 02:11:15 CEST 2004
642 pcg 1.114 - this version should now work fine with TERM=xterm, except
643 root 1.430 for the keymappings.
644     - don't leave the X or rxvtd sockets open in child processes.
645     (inherited fd's stay open - different to rxvt).
646     - xterm-compat: implemented OSC3, set/get window property. get is
647     an extension and is slightly ugly.
648 pcg 1.108 - removed --disable-swapscreen and SCROLL_ON_NO_SECONDARY and
649 root 1.430 replaced them by runtime-configurable options secondaryScreen and
650     secondaryScroll (-ssr and -ssc) (see debian bug #237673).
651 pcg 1.108 - close down terminal window when child exits. (debian bug #241267).
652 root 1.430 - xterm-compat: enable seperate mouse bg colour setting.
653     - re-enable mouse cursor colours again, fixing colours when fg/bg are
654     overwritten (as is common).
655     - xterm-compat: correctly implement privmodes 1047, 1048, 1049.
656     - ported to solaris by elmar@math.uni-bremen.de.
657 pcg 1.108
658     2.6 Fri Apr 2 03:24:10 CEST 2004
659     - minor doc corrections.
660 root 1.430 - WARNING: changed menu sequence from ESC ] 10 to ESC ] 703 to
661     avoid clashes with xterm.
662     - changed OSC701/OSC702 sequence to return standard escaped reports.
663     - xterm-compat: make set window colour and other requests report
664     window colour when arg is "?".
665     - enable colour tinting of "transparent" backgrounds.
666     - stop ST sequences earlier, as we now react on 0x90 and thus
667     cause conditions more often that look like locks but are, in
668     fact, just rxvt waiting for a ST/BEL etc.
669     - re-enabled most of the "dangerous" echo escapes, but only
670     when -insecure is specified as option or resource (see reference).
671     (FRILLS).
672     - disables sleep(1) on transparency updates on default.
673     - fixes to make it compile better on solaris 2.9 (at least).
674     asprintf replacement is still missing(!).
675     - set _NET_WM_PID.
676 pcg 1.108
677 pcg 1.91 2.5 Sun Mar 28 04:05:51 CEST 2004
678     - the usual sprinkled little code cleanups.
679 root 1.430 - support more 8-bit controls.
680     - more informative error messages.
681     - fix some minor memleaks and possible memory corruptions.
682     - the use of exception handling allowed the following improvements:
683     - no longer block when waiting for completion of escape sequences
684     (e.g. printf '\e';sleep 3;printf 'c' will no longer block).
685     - rxvtc usage errors should no longer kill rxvtd (debian bug #237510).
686 pcg 1.91
687 pcg 1.83 2.4 Tue Mar 16 07:06:51 CET 2004
688     - fix stupid double-free() bug on exit.
689     - implement xterm private mode 1049.
690 root 1.430 - fix manpages (debian bug #236824).
691     - removed old selection style completely.
692     - selection works _better_ for non-8-bit and double-width chars.
693     - remove native->unicode translation tables. they aren't used anymore.
694     reduces binary and distro size a bit.
695     - add string representation for JIS X 0213:2000 so these fonts can
696     be used from within rxvt.
697     - less buggy complete set of line-drawing-characters (0x2500-0x259f).
698 pcg 1.83
699 pcg 1.74 2.3 Sun Mar 14 19:00:07 CET 2004
700     - code cleanup release.
701     - fix compile problems without --enable-combining.
702 root 1.430 - fix segfault when DISPLAY cannot be opened.
703     - removed HOTKEY_CTRL and HOTKEY_SHIFT, ACS_*, FONT0_IDX,
704     MAX_NFONTS. UNICODE and UTF8 defines and references from
705     all files.
706     - default config now reads an app-defaults file even without
707     --enable-xgetdefaults.
708 pcg 1.74
709 pcg 1.69 2.2 Thu Mar 11 01:41:56 CET 2004
710 root 1.430 - implement autocompositing of characters by either using an existing
711     precomposed unicode character or by graphical overlay. this is
712     also used to store characters >16bit without --enable-unicode3.
713     - selection now based on wchar_t, so that it can offer UTF-8
714     selections even in locales unable to represent full unicode.
715 pcg 1.69 - tis620-2529 is, of course, thai, not vietnamese...
716 root 1.430 - a typoe prevented characters >65535 to be stored properly.
717     - wcwidth is unreliable in non-unicode-locales on GNU/Linux.
718     working around this fixes line-drawing characters in non-utf-8 mode.
719     - improved rounding when emulating line-drawing characters.
720     - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
721     --disable-xgetdefault.
722     - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
723     also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
724     unicode character.
725     - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
726     get it wrong.
727     - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
728 pcg 1.69
729 pcg 1.58 2.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
730 root 1.444 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
731 root 1.430 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
732     settings.
733     - added plain "big5" encoding into CN.
734     - make cns11643 and big5* encodings actually visible to rxvt.
735     - fix a bug when a multibyte character fell onto a buffer boundary,
736     causing the incomplete character to be presented twice to
737     mbrtowc.
738     - more robust encoding name matching.
739     - fix cursor placement on multibyte characters.
740     - when overwriting wide with narrow chars, pad with spaces.
741     - fix various refresh and display issues for wide chars.
742     - remove multibyte_cursor hack (it was a hack) and associated
743     resources and docs.
744     - fixed memory corruption bug with XLFD fontname parsing.
745 pcg 1.58
746 pcg 1.50 2.0 Sun Feb 29 23:59:58 CET 2004
747     - do not blink text when background colour is not set explicitly.
748 root 1.430 - some doc cleanup
749     - configure cleanup
750     - viscii enabled by default
751     - better support for non-g++-3.2+ systems (tested with g++-2.95).
752 pcg 1.50
753     1.91 Fri Feb 27 03:57:44 CET 2004
754     - build fixes for !xft and !im, reported by various people.
755    
756 pcg 1.46 1.9 Wed Feb 25 16:46:05 CET 2004
757 pcg 1.38 - fixed bug in plain scrollbar causing X errors in XCreateGC.
758 root 1.430 - implemented sharing of X connections. will be used to speed
759     up many x operations considerably. Also saves some memory.
760     - implemented caching of input methods. This immensely shortens
761     startup time for new terms in rxvtd. At least XFree86 4.3 is
762     rather broken with respect to input methods, though, so expect
763     crashes when you kill your input method (xterm et al. also crash).
764     - fix bugs in X flushing, causing an empty screen after startup.
765     - fix various memleaks in rxvtd.
766     - fix a bug that kept escape codes to be generated for some
767     keysyms that also have string translations, when not --enable-xim.
768     reported by joel reed.
769     - re-enabled esc-seq. for font-switching (\033 ] 50 ; <fontset> \007).
770     - re-enabled menubar (experimental!).
771     - fix bug in locale-handling that kept the correct locale from
772     being selected.
773     - implemented esc-seq. to switch locales (\033 ] 9 ; <locale> \007).
774     - removed greek support.
775     - allow NUL bytes (ctrl-@) to be entered even with XIM enabled.
776     - correct cursor width if !focus.
777     - fixed --enable-xgetdefault, reported by eduard bloch.
778 root 1.444 - added manpage for rxvtc/rxvtd based on the one eduard bloch
779 root 1.430 contributed.
780     - use reverse video for normal bold text unless colorBD has been set.
781     - fixed endless loop when selection is valid but empty.
782     - changed default terminal name to "rxvt".
783     - many other minor bugfixes.
784 pcg 1.26
785 pcg 1.25 1.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
786 pcg 1.19 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
787 root 1.430 new bugs, this should not change much.
788     - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
789     - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
790     - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
791     - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
792     - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
793     of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
794     (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
795 pcg 1.19
796 pcg 1.18 1.7 Fri Jan 30 16:50:11 CET 2004
797     - further cleanups.
798 root 1.430 - never do last-minute-changes: restore ability to have
799     color + bold as high-intensity, and let the selection
800     use reverse video, not _blink_.
801     - remove OPTION_HC, at least temporarily. If you want it back,
802     please drop me a note.
803 pcg 1.16
804 pcg 1.15 1.6 Fri Jan 30 00:34:01 CET 2004
805 pcg 1.14 - cleanups, minor bugfixes.
806 root 1.430 - blinking text.
807     - normal text color + bold gets white text instead of
808     normal text when colorBD is not set.
809     (- support double-wide characters (by blocking).)
810     was never implemented
811 pcg 1.13
812 pcg 1.10 1.5 Thu Jan 29 00:43:48 CET 2004
813 pcg 1.7 - share io manager between rxvt-unicode and vpe
814 root 1.430 - bugfix for --disable-utmp, reported by fefe himself
815     - colors were sometimes not used correctly because
816     parts of the code expected a monochrome display.
817     reported by fefe
818     - make it compile without pointer_blank, reported by
819     Markus Demleitner
820     - improved selection support, now supports UTF8_STRING
821     and properly encodes CUT_BUFFER0 in iso-8859-1
822     - completely removed non-working graphics mode
823 pcg 1.7
824 pcg 1.5 1.4 Fri Jan 16 23:03:22 CET 2004
825 pcg 1.6 - fix stupid segfault on esc-c
826 root 1.430 - small font tunings
827     - much better io manager, less bugs, higher speed
828     - better error reporting for unknown options
829 pcg 1.1
830 pcg 1.2 1.3 2003-12-26
831 root 1.430 - fix a bug in font height selection
832     - autoscale scalable x11 fonts
833     - slow-mode xft rendering centers characters
834     - much faster x11 font selection
835 pcg 1.2
836     1.2 2003-12-24
837 root 1.441 - fix another segfault-on-resize-bug from the original rxvt
838 root 1.430 - better font matching
839     - better memory management (less memory)
840     - new fallback: gnu freefont
841 pcg 1.2
842     1.1 2003-12-18
843 root 1.430 - Support for XIM in other than the current locale.
844     - Support for non-utf-8-locales
845     - much improved font choosing
846 pcg 1.2
847 pcg 1.1 1.0
848 root 1.430 - first release
849     - originally cloned from rxvt-CVS 2003-11-19 00:26
850     - removed rclock et al.
851     - initial conversion to C++
852 root 1.194